Sentences with phrase «sophomore jinx»

Every successful debut artist fears the sophomore jinx.

After the soaring critical and commercial success of her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, it took Marisha Pessl quite a while to settle into the creation of her moody, boldly ambitious new novel Night Film.No, it wasn't anxiety about the so - called sophomore jinx, Pessl says during a call to her writing studio.

Unfortunately, Ms. Cody succumbs here to the proverbial sophomore jinx, despite an obvious attempt to imbue her latest title character with the identical, above - it - all attitude of her previous one.

Will the superhero sophomore jinx sting the Russos like those before them?

A lucrative blockbuster winning over genre enthusiasts and thoughtful moviegoers alike, as well as being the rare sci - fi film to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, District 9 is exactly the kind of thing that sets someone up for the sophomore jinx.

So the onus must fall on the material adapted, Robert Harris's follow - up to his much - lauded Fatherland, which promised a Ken Follett romantic espionage page - burner while delivering a staid and occasionally incomprehensible period bodice - ripper crushed under the dual gorgons of the sophomore jinx and the Tom Clancy «guess I'm not very good at dialogue» bogey.